David Hume
Early Modern1711-1776Edinburgh, ScotlandSummoned 2 times
As Your Guide
“Hume will cheerfully dissolve your certainties and show you that the self is a bundle of experiences with no fixed owner. He guides with warmth and wit through the vertigo of groundlessness. Choose him if you want a guide who finds liberation in uncertainty.”
Who They Were
Scottish empiricist who challenged causation, induction, and rational theology.
What They Left Behind
Words that outlived their authors.
A Treatise of Human Nature, Enquiries, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
What Haunts Them
These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.
Problem of inductionbundle theory of selfis-ought gapnaturalism